Alexander

Spreading positivity through tech and code! ☀️ Building cool stuff, one line at a time. 🚀

[Alexander @alexandersomma]

@OLDUKIEDUDE @mgeist @stklietsch Forcing collection of government IDs and long term data retention on all Canadian citizens is not the same as use of a library card to enforce returning books that are borrowed.

[Alexander @alexandersomma]

When you tell everyone you're holding back the god-tier version because safety. Surprise! Release it and then act shocked when regulators say "okay you need to hold it back"

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Alexander @alexandersomma]

@CtrlAltDwayne Cloning existing projects that have existing open-source clones/alternatives is great 👍 but not really useful...

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

The Digital Safety Act is expected tomorrow with a "temporary" under-16 social media ban. I've gathered my analysis of the ban, age verification, and mandated ID into one FAQ. The short version: it won't work and creates serious privacy risks for all.
https://t.co/NsQuubFqyI

[Alexander @alexandersomma]

@garrytan read https://t.co/yflMq9SSwY if you get a chance and share your thoughts on the article.

[Alexander @alexandersomma]

@nickfrosst @opencode Little time for mix and match, see what's a good fit. Have you folks looked at https://t.co/m2p708m5O7

[Michael Cooper, MP @MichaelCooperMP]

BREAKING

Liberals SHUT DOWN my motion for the Privacy Commissioner to testify on Liberal Surveillance Law C-22.

The Commissioner has SOUNDED THE ALARM on a Bill that gives the Govt SWEEPING new powers to collect personal data & surveil Canadians.

Now they want to SILENCE him.

[Alexander @alexandersomma]

@Humanlty1o1 V

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

The Globe reports that online harms legislation is coming this week that includes a “temporary” social media for kids under 16. My post on why this effectively establishes mandated ID for all Canadians to use social media and AI and it won’t be temporary.
https://t.co/lQkeNnJfSl

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

AI Minister Evan Solomon said early on the government had “over-indexed” on AI regulation. He wasn’t kidding. Today’s AI strategy has lots of spending, but is very short on specifics when it comes to privacy, online harms, sovereignty, and transparency.
https://t.co/HgUKMJ3Z1B

[tobi lutke @tobi]

C-22 is a mistake. Not one part of it, the entire direction. ( Same for C-9 )

https://t.co/D5apl9nwvF

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

. @signalapp leaves no doubt about impact of Bill C-22 on the popular messaging app in statement to committee:

“Signal will not build surveillance into our service. If we are ever forced to choose between betraying the people who rely on us and leaving a market, we will leave.”

[Alexander @alexandersomma]

Having fun building our own voice dictation system that works in loud environments.

[Alexander @alexandersomma]

@danveloper @Franklin_ETH1 @antirez Really looking forward to reading. What are you doing to avoid swap burning your storage?

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[Alexander @alexandersomma]

@FalconerAdamson @Tablesalt13 @grok @grok Tell use how the story of Cameron Ortis and NUDGE? It's extremely pertinent to these issues

[Alexander @alexandersomma]

@ClintNorDD @albertwenger Personal harnesses are where it's at! My team has done extensive testing with using natural language tooling and when combining this with your own harness you can boost the quality of smaller models immensely.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

The RCMP appeared before the Public Safety and National Security committee yesterday and affirmed that critics' concerns about Bill C-22 are well justified. The bill is about police gaining access to backdoors and encrypted communications.
https://t.co/TAcL8idlFq